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The Cleveland Railway converted a few streetcar lines in the 1930s, but the onset of World War II stopped any further conversions. In 1942, the Cleveland Transit System took over the operation of all streetcar, bus and trackless trolley lines from the Cleveland Railway. Following the war, CTS undertook a program of replacing all existing ...
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but historically and locally referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in Ohio, with a ridership of 22,431,500, or about 78,200 per weekday as of ...
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1892 Indianapolis streetcar strike; 1895, Brooklyn, New York City, the first in which Farley was involved; 1896, Milwaukee [8] 1899, Cleveland, Ohio; 1900, St. Louis, where the dynamiting of streetcars was a "nightly occurrence" [9] 1903, Los Angeles; 1907, San Francisco, California, with 31 killed and an estimated 1000 people injured; 1908 ...
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. OH-4, "Shaker Heights Rapid Transit Line, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH", 18 photos, 15 data pages, 2 photo caption pages; Jon Bell – Cleveland, Ohio: Transit Links; Cleveland, Ohio – Rapid Transit (RTA) nycsubway.org – Cleveland, Ohio; RTA Rapid Transit Locations; Northern Ohio Railway Museum
The Toronto streetcar system is the only surviving first-generation system whose streetcars still primarily use street running. The surviving legacy systems using PCC streetcars have since replaced their PCC cars with modern light rail vehicles, although restored vintage PCC cars are still in regular operation on Boston's Mattapan Line , and as ...
The Red Line (formerly and internally known as Route 66, also known as the Airport–Windermere Line) is a rapid transit line of the RTA Rapid Transit system in Cleveland, Ohio, running from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport northeast to Tower City in downtown Cleveland, then east and northeast to Windermere. 2.6 miles (4.2 km) of track, including two stations (Tri-C–Campus District ...